Dragon Ball Super Chapter 101 Storyboards.These 2 alone would make the ability much believable imo (but tbh he can still just enter the fray very easily this way as well).DBS Manga Chapter 100 (Previous Chapters) | Join r/dbz for image posts and more❗ It should also have a long 'casting time' which would explain why he doesnt use it in combat. So what I think instant transmission should look like is not a learnt ki ability, but a divine gift which allows him to do it 1x per day only, so he has to choose carefully when to use it and cant spam it. What I would rather IT have is something like either a cooldown, or a prerequisite to using it, which would make it impossible or difficult to use it in combat (which would explain better why he actually doesnt use it in combat). In IT's case it should be either a limit of range like you said, but I personally think it's still too OP that way since most of the plot takes place on Earth anyway. OP plot Abilities like this need to have some kind of limit to them to make them believable. And since Dragon Ball was already moving away from the adventure stuff…I honestly kinda prefer that they just skip it entirely, instead of mentioning travel gaps and refusing to show them (or worse, making them boring). So while I agree that Instant Transmission wasn’t great (convenient fast travel is usually pretty hacky), it’s more a symptom of change than an independent source of decline. Which was sad for people like me, who really loved the exploring/adventuring parts of the series, but hey, that’s not what was selling at the time.

A continuing shift in plot focus and everyone having superspeed flight were the biggest causes of the change, but Instant Transmission was the final nail in the coffin: the journeying days of Dragon Ball were over. But by the time Namek happened, that aspect had become much less important, to the point that the last two or three dragon ball hunts weren’t even shown on-panel.

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